Ron Paul: Iran Would be Justified in Closing Strategic Waterway in Response to Sanctions

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(CNSNews.com) – As Iran ratcheted up its rhetoric Thursday about closing the Strait of Hormuz, Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul revisited his earlier criticisms of Western policy towards Tehran, adding that Iran would be justified in cutting off the strategic waterway in response to sanctions.

At a campaign event in Iowa Thursday, Paul called Western sanctions imposed against Iran over its nuclear activities “horrendous” and “acts of war,”

[qman]

The sanctions are acts of war, are they not? We are defacto at war with Iran, an undeclared war, an unconstitutional war, and war we simply can't afford to become a shooting war, we are broke, our soldiers are tired, and the moral of the American people is at an all time low.
Iran will not attempt to close the Strait, they are not stupid, we would destroy their navy in a matter of hours, and they know it, this is propaganda by the Iranian leaders to throw public hatred at America.

[SJackson]

Ron is a huge Christmas gift to obama -Soros Dem party media operations. His nutty stances and comments will fuel the Axelrod AstroTurf that the GOP is wacko and Too extreme

I raised that issue 4 years ago, though rather than your timid nutty and too extreme, I said racist and antisemitic. I was wrong then, he didn't become an issue, I hope you're wrong this time around.

If I was a dem, I'd raise the issue, along with the question of why didn't Republicans reject him over the years. Not at the top, Obama, but at the local level. Amongst minorities. Of course some would question whether the GOP needs minorities.

[SJackson]

Ron Paul is no longer a threat to the Republican Party. If Ron Paul runs as a third party candidate, he'll take the entire “Flaming Idiot” wing of the Democrat Party away from the Democrats and without them Obama will surely lose.

Perhaps. And put Rand in an untenable position. My guess he'll continue to collect $ which can be channeled to his foundations, and yap and yammer a lot.

[John D]

What the Paul supporters don’t get is that if Iran did this, gas prices would go so high that the Paulettes couldn’t afford POT.

They do not care about the price of pot. If their messiah is elected they know he will supply them with all the free pot they can smoke.

[SJackson]

One thing most people don’t know: according to the D.O.E., the US’s only major source of oil from the Middle East is Saudi Arabia. Our five largest oil suppliers are 1. Canada, 2. Mexico, 3. Saudi Arabia, 4. Nigeria, and 5. Venezuela. We get zero barrels from Iran. Meanwhile, we must kowtow to the totalitarian regimes of Hugo Chavez and the Ibn Sauds and the ever-corrupt regimes of Mexico.

This may come as a shock, but many people believe the nations that do get their supplies from the mideast, Europe and Asia, might bid up the price of oil rather than do without. Which does affect us.

Which poses the greater threat to the US - the uncontrolled Mexican cartels or the Irani mullahs?

We arm the cartels, so it must be the Mullahs. Personally, I think they're both enemies.

[Condor51]

Will someone please put Ron Paul back in his padded room, and asap.

This lunatic has been off his meds way too long.

[qman]

Now you have met one, vote for Reagan, good vote! Voted for Bush twice, got fooled once, new he would loose second time around, glad Clinton never got a majority. Voted for Dole, new it was a waste of time when I did it, what a fool and looser. Voted for ‘W’ the best of the worst twice.
Voted for McCain, because Sarah was on the ticket, new it was hopeless and would probably have turned out much as it is now had he won!

This year we have no real choice?
Romney, used car salesman.
Santorum, hates everyone not like him.
Rick Perry, makes Bush look intelligent.
Newt, progressive Republican, and actually will admit it.
Bachman, not Sarah and it shows.
Huntsman, Who?

Well, he not attractive, he's right on almost everything but he's not a BS artist, and you clearly have to lie about everything to get people to believe you these days, so I support RP.

But as before, the prevailing mood will be, he can't win, he's wrong about our foreign policy, even though everyone knows we can no longer afford, the Empire America, we are over stretched, our soldiers are war werie, and the moral of the American people is at an all time low, so lets keep up the war rhetoric, tax and spend our selves into poverty, vote for the status quo.

Where do I pull the lever for Romney???

[Iscool]

I certainly don't see where Ron Paul is siding with the Iranians...He's pointing out a reality and basically warning us to expect repercussions with the sanctions...

If another country cut off the U.S. from the commerce that is needed for us to survive, I would expect that type of reaction here...

With the increased sanctions on Iran, they are either going to cower in submission or provide the 1st punch...

Their punch may consist of attempting to blockade the gulf, or facilitate some nasty terrorism here in the U.S. or both...And I don't blame them...I'd do the same thing...I'm just real happy that I am an American and not an Iranian...

[Jim Robinson]

FURP!!

[Vermont Lt]

I don’t dispute what you are saying. At all.

Iran does not interest me at all.

But, we are doing whatever we can to pick a fight with them.

now, whether or not you think that is a good idea might be a good discussion here. But I don’t think what we think matters.

They are going to lash out. And it will be against us. They KNOW they cannot win. But winning is not important to them. Taking us on is important.

My guess is they would not be acting like this unless they felt they could give us a black eye. That concerns me.

[ejonesie22]

LOL

[SandRat]

Ron Paul, America would be justified in “Exiling You!”

[JoeFromSidney]

If Paul hasn’t figured out yet who are our enemies and what threat they pose to us, he doesn’t deserve to hold the office.

I agree. My point was that if somehow he did get elected President, he'd be in for a shock. Just as Jimmy Carter was.

[reg45]

Ron Paul’s Secretary of State could be Dennis Kucinich.

[Charles Henrickson]

Ron Paul’s Secretary of State could be Dennis Kucinich.

Kookie could be in charge of dealing with undocu--unidentified aliens.

Sheila Jackson Lee, head of NASA.

[denydenydeny]

To put this in libertarian or Objectivist terms:

If someone who had been selling things to you decided to stop, you would be justified in turning over a car in the middle of the street so none of your neighbors could leave the block. And shooting at anyone who tried to remove the car. That’s what RP is saying.

[Ronin]

Ron Paul — America’s crazy uncle in the attic bedroom.

[ncalburt]

Well the RNC are clueless and fall for every Dem party tactic.
I hope I am wrong too but it’s way too organized. Not to be
A DNC -Axelrod dirty tricks operation.
Axelrod got Obama elected to the Senate by having his pals
at the Chicago Tribune to judge shop and get sealed
Divorce papers unsealed .

[omega4179]

So Paul supports military action in response to diplomacy.

He opposes his own beliefs! what a moron!

[Talisker]

The sanctions we just placed on them are similar to the sanctions placed on Japan prior to their attack in 1941.

It is reasonable to make the assumption that the results of these sanctions could be similar.

While Ron’s wording on this is very poor, the logic is not.

Cutting off Japan’s resources through the embargo = Attack on the US. Cutting of flow of cash to Iran = ?

I am not a Paultard. I just think that this whole Iranian thing seems eerily like 1940 all over again.

Yep.

It's a construction thing, like structured dance steps, being played out right in front of the world. Paul's just pointing out the dance steps.

And the thing is, they aren't even secret dance steps - they're obvious.

All the shrieking about Paul is just being done to cover up that obviousness.